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Historical Event on 1/24/1966

Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1995Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
7/19/1952India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day.
1/7/1928Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
1/1/1981This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".
6/22/1993Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
11/9/1992Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
12/28/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
1/1/1965This year was announced to be observed as the ""Year of International Co-operation"".